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Which are the features that you need in your Antivirus Product?

Updated: 12 May 2009 | 5 comments
Bijay.Swain's picture
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For Me First of all

                  1) It should detect All Viruses and Spywares .(most important) It should scan and detect anything that enters to the system via any medium such as Ethernet or Bluetooth etc.

                  2) A good firewall which should be easy to configure and troubleshoot.

                  3) It should be a small program so that it uses less resource.

                  4) A feature through which I can block files and programs to run so that even if a new threat comes and antivirus unable to detect it but I know what files and process it is using , I can manually block the files and programs to get into a running process till the definition arrives.

                  5) Antivirus should protect itself from virus. There should be some protection for its own files and virus should not corrupt antivirus.

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SAM_SHAIKH's picture
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2009
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Bijay, MOst /all of the above

Bijay,

MOst /all of the above features are available with major AV vendors now-a-days.

Point No. 4 is something which vendors can focuse on.

Rgrds,
SAM

G_70508's picture
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2009
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All of Abovr is Neccesary

All of Abovr is Neccesary especialy 2,3
& its shold also list the source of virus ...
like downloaded from www.____.com
or excuted while opening***** file

Gizzle's picture
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2009
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 todays antivrus consume much

 todays antivrus consume much more system while scanning......so there should be less consuming antivirus,,,,,,

Nel Ramos's picture
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2009
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It should not be easily

It should not be easily dissabled by admin accounts not administering the AV configuration ...
because what would an AV with all the best features do if it would easily be disabled by a single flick of the wrist...
thanks...

Nel Ramos

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For me it has to allow the

For me it has to allow the PC to boot up fast.  TIme is money and anti virus software needs to not slow down PC boot time.